Change to Board of Directors
WPP Group PLC
18 May 2000
WPP appoints Steven Heyer as non-executive director
WPP Group plc ('WPP') announces the appointment of Steven Heyer
to its Board with immediate effect. He is President and Chief
Operating Officer for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a
division of Time Warner.
At Time Warner, Heyer has overall responsibility for all of the
primary product development, rights acquisition, revenue and cost
streams of Turner Broadcasting System for all Turner news,
entertainment and sports operations and networks worldwide.
Under his leadership Turner has enjoyed 19 consecutive quarters
of EBITA growth in excess of 20%.
In his six years with the company, he has led TBS's sales and
marketing, promotion, merchandising, licensing, direct marketing,
event/sponsorship, product placement, place-based media and new
media initiatives worldwide. His early mandate was, and
continues to be, leveraging all Turner properties companywide,
including all of Turner's entertainment and news networks - as
well as the Atlanta Braves, the Atlanta Hawks, the Atlanta
Thrashers, New Line Cinema, WCW, and Cartoon Network Studios - in
order to drive sales and marketing revenues. One year after
joining the company, Heyer took on the additional responsibility
for the remainder of Turner's international operations in Asia
and Latin America, as well as worldwide distribution for all of
Turner's networks.
Prior to joining Turner in 1994, Mr Heyer was President and Chief
Operating Officer of Young & Rubicam Advertising Worldwide,
Executive Vice President Young & Rubicam Inc., a member of the
Executive Committee and a member of the Board of Directors.
Before Y&R, he spent 15 years at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc.,
where he was Senior Vice President and managing partner. He
directed the firm's Consumer Industries Group which provides
consulting services to packaged goods, consumer services,
communications and media, retail and agribusiness clients
worldwide.
Resident in Atlanta, Georgia, he is also chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Cable Advertising Bureau and a Director of the
Ad Council in the US, as well as being on the Board of Advisors
of eHatchery and RealEstate.com, two private internet start-ups.
For further information, please contact:
Feona McEwan at WPP, UK
++020 7408 2204
www.wpp.com
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